A flaw was found in Little CMS (aka Little Color Management System) 2.9. An integer overflow
in the AllocateDataSet function in cmscgats.c, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow in the
SetData function via a crafted file in the second argument to cmsIT8LoadFromFile.

References:

https://github.com/mm2/Little-CMS/issues/171
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-16435

Patch:

https://github.com/mm2/Little-CMS/commit/768f70ca405cd3159d990e962d54456773bb8cf8

(from redmine: issue id 9443, created on 2018-09-21, closed on 2018-11-08)

• Relations:
  • parent #9442 (closed)
• Changesets:
  • Revision 348c14c7 on 2018-11-06T15:54:09Z:

main/lcms2: security fix (CVE-2018-16435)

Fixes #9443